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Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by ggsp »

nucleardog wrote: post #288
Lammy wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One time when I left a job and had some really rare stickers I bought an identical ThinkPad and swapped the entire upper half of the machines with each other.

I basically never applied a sticker to any laptop I owned until I got a Framework. Just hoarded them like a dragon sitting on his pile of sticker-gold. Finally figured hey, I might have this laptop more than a single upgrade cycle... it's worth burning a weird sticker or two. I still try and buck the trend a little--instead of advertising technologies or something, my general goal is that, at first glance, nobody wou…

Would love to see them!

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by vachina »

A lot of German users. I guess they have a much active hackerscene. Which is true because I literally got my laptop sticker cut out with a cricut cut at a Berlin computer club.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by imiric »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #211
stinkbeetle wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see much hostility at all. A few people don't like them. That's not weird hostility, isn't it just self-expression? Like the stickers that oppose or express a dislike of something, which presumably aren't weird hostility either. People are allowed to dislike or disagree or make not entirely positive comments. Sure some would just scroll on, arguably that's the better thing to do, but commenting in self-expres…

There are a lot of flagged comments at the bottom

Ah, yes, downvoted and flagged comments is how I know someone is wrong and not worth reading.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by imiric »

stinkbeetle wrote: post #267
squigz wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go to an art show and are like, "Wow, these all suck! Why didn't any of you artists do art the way I think it should be done?!" That's not self-expression. That's being an asshole.

Okay. Were you hoping I would address this scenario of your own fabrication, or are you able to make your point using this actual situation right in front of us that we are discussing? People self-expressing dislike for some content under a link on public forum that explicitly invites comment is not hostility. Making comments and disagreement about politics is not hostility (particularly in response to political cont…

Thank you for being a voice of reason within the hive mind.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by w-ll »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #103
c0nsumer wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I regularly see pallets of laptops turned in (either due to refreshes or end-of-employment stuff) for a major manufacturing / engineering (car) company. They are just as stickered, but with automotive nerdery. It's pretty neat. And seeing just /how/ many laptops are that way it made me feel a lot less weird about putting stickers on "my" work laptop.

how many people do you think have both a SAAB SCANIA and VIM logo on their laptop. odds are i am 1 of 1

I have Alpina stickers on my monitor stand. I treat laptops like 1 an done for travel.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by Lammy »

nucleardog wrote: post #288
Lammy wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One time when I left a job and had some really rare stickers I bought an identical ThinkPad and swapped the entire upper half of the machines with each other.

I basically never applied a sticker to any laptop I owned until I got a Framework. Just hoarded them like a dragon sitting on his pile of sticker-gold. Finally figured hey, I might have this laptop more than a single upgrade cycle... it's worth burning a weird sticker or two. I still try and buck the trend a little--instead of advertising technologies or something, my general goal is that, at first glance, nobody wou…

I haven't tried putting any on my Framework 12 yet, because the ABS has this sort of rough texture that's very soft and pleasant to touch but seems like it wouldn't hold stickers well long-term. I've been putting mine on retro machines instead, like on my 900MHz HITACHI (actually Acer OEM) PⅢ: https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/GWgVHXHaoAIPiB...

These days I also flatbed-scan any rare stickers before using them, to slake that FOMO “what if something better comes along and I regret using it now?” feeling.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by maxlin »

Stickers themselves can be fun and quirky, but I for the life of me can't figure out why people would put such extremely divisive and workplace-unnecessary messaging on their MAIN WORK DEVICE as many of these have.

The kind of lack to integrate to a team having your pride flags, literal death threats to perceived enemies, furries, loli anime, etc on a thing you intend to bring to the workplace to do all your work on isn't good for your career and sure as hell won't not be noticed by people whose responsibility is to judge risk and liabilities for example.

Tech stacks, not party flags.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by wahnfrieden »

maxlin wrote: post #317

Stickers themselves can be fun and quirky, but I for the life of me can't figure out why people would put such extremely divisive and workplace-unnecessary messaging on their MAIN WORK DEVICE as many of these have. The kind of lack to integrate to a team having your pride flags, literal death threats to perceived enemies, furries, loli anime, etc on a thing you intend to bring to the workplace to do all your work on…

What's wrong with a pride flag? People commonly display their hetero marriages etc. at workplaces too. If either of those cause division in a workplace, that's a matter for HR or legal to resolve (if it is indeed a disruption).

Anyway it's unclear which of these are brought into offices.

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD »

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #123

Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering. Some cyber companies explicitly prohibit stickers on company laptops.

>Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering.

How?

Re: Laptops with Stickers

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Post by GaryBluto »

sien wrote: post #24

It's interesting that these are labelled 'creative'. They all look the same. They all reflect similar taste. Quite a bit of politics, but is there a single right wing sticker? I couldn't find one. I was at SIGGRAPH many years ago in a line behind some artists. They were talking about how all the engineers dressed the same. This is true. But was also true was that you easily tell the artists as well, they all dressed…

If anything all the transgender/pride and left-wing political cases just make me notice the more "original" ones more. It's like Where's Waldo. I still find stickers tacky though.
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